The previous owner had a ghetto glasspack exhaust system on my truck. You got high from the exhaust fumes after 5 min and it looked like a had a racing style exhaust dump in the cold weather. It's all fixed up now with a custom stainless steel Magnaflow 2.25" system.

 

i think its a darn fine job, id hire him anytime to work on my neighbors exhaust.

 

Not it want to sleep and your neighbor is a night owl

 

I win. patched together until i can afford for the shop to weld in a new piece.

 

I recognized the headers, I had a set on a foxbody mustang. Changing plugs is an all day event. If they are the same, one of the plugs is tucked underneath a primary, so you have to snake a wrench in there and it sucks.

 

The only one that really causes any issue on the truck ones is the rear most passenger side plug. I just checked this today in fact. With the tricky ones I just put the socket on the plug, then put a wrench on the end of the socket and break it loose. The stupid smog lines cause more of an issue than the headers....

 

The last time I tried to weld under my project car I thought I had it all figured out. I had practiced on some of the exhaust I had already cut off. Had my wire speed and heat just right. It was a thing of beauty, the practice weld. Then I get under the car and it looked like I had crapped weld spatter on the pipe. I just should not weld upside down. So your welds look great compared to what I did down there.

 

I doubt the problem was trying to make overhead welds, it was that you practiced on a single piece of pipe.

When you went to weld on the actual exhaust under the truck, you were working on pipe-within-pipe, the joints where one section of pipe was fit into another. This is basically double the thickness that you were set up for from your practice run. If you'd have just added more heat and maybe some voltage on top of that, it would have probably come out just fine.

 

[QUOTE=cbakker;14687647]It really wont be ghetto until your flux core welds break off of that 4 bolt flange, and you start dragging those glass packs and throwing sparks. If it doesn't break off completely, you can at least count on a leak to show up there eventually.[/QUOTE

Lol believe it or not ive done that exact same thing on multiple rigs (and done worse than this when i was even less expereinced with welding) and it lasts for thousands and thousands of miles without major problems until
i save up for headers. I do this to hold me over till i get enough money to slap on headers and take it in to the muffler shop to run some real piping. . . I will post a video of what this ghetto rig sounds like here soon Hahahaha.

 

you did fine i wouldnt worry about the naysayers.

 

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN BOUT'!!

 

I might just go and fish those headers out and check it out. Thank you for looking.